June 26, 2025 • 11 mins
Rach's friend kindly offers to babysit for her, but things take a turn when an innocent idea becomes pretty crazy and not at all what she wants to do!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apod Shake Production. Welcome back to another episode about I
Mad Moms Podcast. Okay, I'm gonna ask you a question.
(00:29):
Will you be having a bubbles tonight? Yes, because it's
started school holidays for you. Now, we talk often about
moms go you know, one of two ways. They either
love school holidays because it's less rushing around, no lunch
boxes to make, no after school activities, that kind of thing,
or they hate it because they have to do perhaps
(00:51):
after school care, so it's still a rush and there's
still lunch at boxes to be done, and then the
kids just get bored. And it's expensive.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's expensive. It is so expensive. I think we're talking
about it in the podcast like last week or something
like that, and you were saying that you have like
certain rules implemented with uber eats. When we were growing up,
what would we have done to our parents to make
it the same as now what your kids do with
uber eats. When we were kids, we got like maybe
(01:19):
five dollars to go to the corner store and maybe
buy I don't know what you bought from a corner Stan,
what did you buy it from the corner sooan like
a pie? Yeah, I remember always buying the same sandwich
and then I'd get like a choky milk and then
like a donut and you could probably get that all
five dollars. Yeah, but we were talking about your girl
spending like dropping like forty two dollars on Gusman.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right. So now that we're in holidays, are you implementing
new rules about how many times they're allowed to audo
uber eats whilst you're at work and they're at home? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
None, No, none, because if there's food in the fridge, yeah,
then you make yourself some food. And we've talked about
it four. It really irritates me when they get convenience foods,
like pre packed stuff that is for lunch boxes. They
just eat our home, come bother to make anything else.
I got home the other day, right because my girls
(02:10):
have been on school holidays this week as well, and
I got home the other day, I found the dishwasher
and there was a lot of stuff in there, and
I was like, what have they even making? Like I
could tell there were bits of rice and like I
was like, what the hell did you make?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Mom, we had a great lunch, So yeah, we made
rice and then we did like a white wine, vinegar,
sesame oil, sauce, and we had some vegetables in there.
And then we were telling me all this stuff. I
was like, oh, wow, so you can't do it then,
I mean that you've used everything in our kitchen.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, I'd take that. I'd take that one with it,
but you do not come at me now, and so
you can't make dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
No, No, it'll be once in three weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Honestly, just on that note of like using everything that's possible,
I had to really like let go of some control strings.
The other day, Gracie had brought over her little friend
and then Mike, Gracie says to her, do you want
to make cookies? And I was like I just had
to shut up. And just to top it off, like
(03:10):
the house had just been cleaned the day before, you
know that feeling. And then I turn around someone else
has dropped in and I'm chatting with them. So I'm
distracted and I'm trying my best not to a look
over towards kitchen because otherwise I'm going to lose it.
I could hear an applian it's being used, and it
was starting. I knew which fiance was and I was
(03:30):
like so on May has decided she knows how to
make chok chip cookies because it's in the Thermo mix.
Oh yeah, and she's put in choc chips into the
Thermo and started blitzing them. Clearly don't need to because
they're chok chips. And then I said, sorry, stop, whoa
who I'm starting to twitch. Ah no, mum, See this
(03:52):
is the thing. It says. I had to have a
whole block of chocolate and that's why I needed to
put it on to number eight because then it's going
to break it down. I said, So, technically it's already
broken down because you've put choc chips in, so you
don't need to act skip that. Remember skip This machine
is like pretty pricey. So just letting you know that
if you really basically fuck this machine up, it's going
(04:13):
to empty your bank account, I said, because this is
not a toy. The other Grace goes, oh, maybe we
shouldn't do this. Let's just do it in a mixing bowl. Grace,
I think I know how to do it in a
mixing bowl. Like it in a mixing bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
For the love of God.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Anyway, she puts in cinnamon. I did not consume one,
but I put them in their lunchboxes until they were gone.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yea, in your lunchbox every single day.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You knows weird as cinnamon.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Chocolate chip cookies. You eat them?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Am I bad mum for allowing them to hang out
with my friends. Oh honestly, Katie, I was driving here
thinking you are gonna froth over this topic. Not often
do they just go and hang out with friends of mine,
So got myself into a pickle. A couple of weeks ago,
Elsie started tutoring. I'm single parenting, and I, for some reason,
(05:16):
the logistics of picking up Elsie from tutoring at the
same time as having to be at the bus stop
to pick up Gracy. I just didn't know how to
do it. I I just couldn't. I was like, bucket,
I don't know what to do. So beautiful friend of
mine said, how about I pick up else from tutoring
and I'll just drop her back home and I'll sit
with her for half until you get home from Grace
(05:39):
and easy, I've got nothing on this afternoon. Yes, that
would be amazing, Thank you. That would help me out heaps.
Fast forward from this happening, and Elsie is at me
do you know what my particular said friend has told
my daughter. So she comes to me and she says, Mum,
I found out that at this particular place in Samford,
(06:02):
you're allowed to go and you adopt chickens. Yeah, adopt chickens.
I was like looking around and I was like, I'm
gonna get her back adopt chickens. I'm not adopting chickens.
And then I was like, yeah, tell me more else.
Like in my head, like I'd watched an Instagram real
that was like, don't shut stuff down, and so in
my head I was like, don't say direct no, And
(06:23):
so I was like, yeah, tell me more. Yeah, I
want to know all about it. Month you go in
and all you have to do is like pay money
and then you bring the baby chicks home and then
you look after it for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Hang on for a second, that sounds like buying a chicken.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yep, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So we're paying money and buying a.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Chicken, baby chicks, two of them, ye, and you bring
them home supposedly in a cage, and you look after
them for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
For keep weekend, you're hiring chickens, and then you take
them back on the Monday or whenever you I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So you pay money to hire somebody else, So you're
like going to take home somebody else's chick and raise
them and then give them back and you pay for it.
You pay for it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It was like a reverse Airbnb for chicks where you
have to pay to have them at your house.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Why And then I was thinking about it, going what
if it dies? What happens if they die? Because I've
got treves in the house. What if I come in eating.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Them in the chicks?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah? What do I do? Then? Just pay more money?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Do you get chicks? There some sort of insurance?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I had to message my bread this morning and go, right,
what is this nonsense about adopting chicks and then bringing
them to my house? I was like, this kid has
not let up about it. Elsie is a mad football fan.
She goes, don't worry about Bronx. I don't need to go.
I don't want to go. We'll have chicks. We'll we'll
(07:56):
stay home with the chicks and we'll watch from home.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, and how long are they going to look after
these chickens for? Are they going to be out there
all day looking up? Are they going to feed them
three times. I don't know what time chicks get up
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't even I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But eat them safe. You're to keep them warm. It's winter.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
This is what happens when you allow your kids hang
out with your friends. Your brands think it's funny to
tell your kids stuff they know that you don't want
to do.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You don't want to do that. It's like a foster
home for chicks.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, so I feel like my weekend coming up is.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Going to be for the weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Rage.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You want to come out on the boat and I'm sorry,
I can't. I've adopted chickens just for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And paid for it. Yes, what kind of fucking system
is that? Stupid?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That is when you foster children like human children, you
get money from the government. I don't know, she's someone
that us you. I'm in your food surely, so this
I mean a brilliant business idea. I know, I don't
even mend you these animals for the weekend, and.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You pay us, then hopefully you want to buy them
from us in the end and keep them and raise
chicken option. No, I don't want to. I don't want
any more chocks. We've been through this, h We've done
the chook thing.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You remember that you gave chicken thinking, oh, that's a
lovely gift. They live out at Samford, they've got acreage.
I know what they would really.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Like a chicken. Chicken.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
We brought you a chicken.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Its name we named it was Rogue. It was the
most rogue chook I had ever encountered.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It used to just come into your house.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It was always in my house, and then I'd pull
up in my car and then like if i'd open
my door, there it is, and then it just jumps
in my car in your car. And then the day
that I literally thought I had a snake in the
house because it's just me, either a snake or a ghost.
It is just me and the whole entire house. It's
(09:56):
in the middle of the day and all of a sudden,
the xylophone starts going a xylophone you guys, like, it's
a fucking chook jump through the window.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Through the window and starts playing there.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And it's like dancing on it. So it's little nails
are going ding ding ding ding ding, And I was like, what,
it's a musicals, a musical chicken yeah. And then to
top that off, you gave us a chook that we
thought wasn't even laying eggs. And that's the whole point
why you get chooks, right, you want fresh eggs. This
thing didn't ever lift its game, never, never, never ever
(10:35):
got one egg from it. Do you know why why
it's hiding them? When we finally gave it away, I
found all its eggs. It was probably the best layer
we'd ever had that we didn't know where it was
laying them.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That was a smart chicken.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Like a pile of eggs, file.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Of eggs plays the xylophone.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I had its wings clipped because it kept jumping out
of the chook area. I had to hide to see
how it was getting out, because it's like when you
get their wings clip, they can't fly. Do you know
what did? It hopped from one level into another level,
to another level to another level to it reached the
top and then just jumped straight down.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh right, We could have made millions from this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
This was like a circus truck, a circus chok.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You didn't allow him to be his full potential. He
was a musical, he was talented.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And now I better spend my weekend fostering chicks.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That chicken was smart. You're on the lookout for the
next one.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Maybe we had on chickens
Apod Shake Production. Welcome back to another episode about I
Mad Moms Podcast. Okay, I'm gonna ask you a question.
(00:29):
Will you be having a bubbles tonight? Yes, because it's
started school holidays for you. Now, we talk often about
moms go you know, one of two ways. They either
love school holidays because it's less rushing around, no lunch
boxes to make, no after school activities, that kind of thing,
or they hate it because they have to do perhaps
(00:51):
after school care, so it's still a rush and there's
still lunch at boxes to be done, and then the
kids just get bored. And it's expensive.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
It's expensive. It is so expensive. I think we're talking
about it in the podcast like last week or something
like that, and you were saying that you have like
certain rules implemented with uber eats. When we were growing up,
what would we have done to our parents to make
it the same as now what your kids do with
uber eats. When we were kids, we got like maybe
(01:19):
five dollars to go to the corner store and maybe
buy I don't know what you bought from a corner Stan,
what did you buy it from the corner sooan like
a pie? Yeah, I remember always buying the same sandwich
and then I'd get like a choky milk and then
like a donut and you could probably get that all
five dollars. Yeah, but we were talking about your girl
spending like dropping like forty two dollars on Gusman.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Right. So now that we're in holidays, are you implementing
new rules about how many times they're allowed to audo
uber eats whilst you're at work and they're at home? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
None, No, none, because if there's food in the fridge, yeah,
then you make yourself some food. And we've talked about
it four. It really irritates me when they get convenience foods,
like pre packed stuff that is for lunch boxes. They
just eat our home, come bother to make anything else.
I got home the other day, right because my girls
(02:10):
have been on school holidays this week as well, and
I got home the other day, I found the dishwasher
and there was a lot of stuff in there, and
I was like, what have they even making? Like I
could tell there were bits of rice and like I
was like, what the hell did you make?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Mom, we had a great lunch, So yeah, we made
rice and then we did like a white wine, vinegar,
sesame oil, sauce, and we had some vegetables in there.
And then we were telling me all this stuff. I
was like, oh, wow, so you can't do it then,
I mean that you've used everything in our kitchen.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, I'd take that. I'd take that one with it,
but you do not come at me now, and so
you can't make dinner.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
No, No, it'll be once in three weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Honestly, just on that note of like using everything that's possible,
I had to really like let go of some control strings.
The other day, Gracie had brought over her little friend
and then Mike, Gracie says to her, do you want
to make cookies? And I was like I just had
to shut up. And just to top it off, like
(03:10):
the house had just been cleaned the day before, you
know that feeling. And then I turn around someone else
has dropped in and I'm chatting with them. So I'm
distracted and I'm trying my best not to a look
over towards kitchen because otherwise I'm going to lose it.
I could hear an applian it's being used, and it
was starting. I knew which fiance was and I was
(03:30):
like so on May has decided she knows how to
make chok chip cookies because it's in the Thermo mix.
Oh yeah, and she's put in choc chips into the
Thermo and started blitzing them. Clearly don't need to because
they're chok chips. And then I said, sorry, stop, whoa
who I'm starting to twitch. Ah no, mum, See this
(03:52):
is the thing. It says. I had to have a
whole block of chocolate and that's why I needed to
put it on to number eight because then it's going
to break it down. I said, So, technically it's already
broken down because you've put choc chips in, so you
don't need to act skip that. Remember skip This machine
is like pretty pricey. So just letting you know that
if you really basically fuck this machine up, it's going
(04:13):
to empty your bank account, I said, because this is
not a toy. The other Grace goes, oh, maybe we
shouldn't do this. Let's just do it in a mixing bowl. Grace,
I think I know how to do it in a
mixing bowl. Like it in a mixing bowl.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
For the love of God.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Anyway, she puts in cinnamon. I did not consume one,
but I put them in their lunchboxes until they were gone.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Yea, in your lunchbox every single day.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Mate.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You knows weird as cinnamon.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Chocolate chip cookies. You eat them?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Am I bad mum for allowing them to hang out
with my friends. Oh honestly, Katie, I was driving here
thinking you are gonna froth over this topic. Not often
do they just go and hang out with friends of mine,
So got myself into a pickle. A couple of weeks ago,
Elsie started tutoring. I'm single parenting, and I, for some reason,
(05:16):
the logistics of picking up Elsie from tutoring at the
same time as having to be at the bus stop
to pick up Gracy. I just didn't know how to
do it. I I just couldn't. I was like, bucket,
I don't know what to do. So beautiful friend of
mine said, how about I pick up else from tutoring
and I'll just drop her back home and I'll sit
with her for half until you get home from Grace
(05:39):
and easy, I've got nothing on this afternoon. Yes, that
would be amazing, Thank you. That would help me out heaps.
Fast forward from this happening, and Elsie is at me
do you know what my particular said friend has told
my daughter. So she comes to me and she says, Mum,
I found out that at this particular place in Samford,
(06:02):
you're allowed to go and you adopt chickens. Yeah, adopt chickens.
I was like looking around and I was like, I'm
gonna get her back adopt chickens. I'm not adopting chickens.
And then I was like, yeah, tell me more else.
Like in my head, like I'd watched an Instagram real
that was like, don't shut stuff down, and so in
my head I was like, don't say direct no, And
(06:23):
so I was like, yeah, tell me more. Yeah, I
want to know all about it. Month you go in
and all you have to do is like pay money
and then you bring the baby chicks home and then
you look after it for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
Hang on for a second, that sounds like buying a chicken.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yep, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So we're paying money and buying a.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Chicken, baby chicks, two of them, ye, and you bring
them home supposedly in a cage, and you look after
them for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
For keep weekend, you're hiring chickens, and then you take
them back on the Monday or whenever you I don't know.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
So you pay money to hire somebody else, So you're
like going to take home somebody else's chick and raise
them and then give them back and you pay for it.
You pay for it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
It was like a reverse Airbnb for chicks where you
have to pay to have them at your house.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Why And then I was thinking about it, going what
if it dies? What happens if they die? Because I've
got treves in the house. What if I come in eating.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Them in the chicks?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah? What do I do? Then? Just pay more money?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Do you get chicks? There some sort of insurance?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I had to message my bread this morning and go, right,
what is this nonsense about adopting chicks and then bringing
them to my house? I was like, this kid has
not let up about it. Elsie is a mad football fan.
She goes, don't worry about Bronx. I don't need to go.
I don't want to go. We'll have chicks. We'll we'll
(07:56):
stay home with the chicks and we'll watch from home.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Yeah, and how long are they going to look after
these chickens for? Are they going to be out there
all day looking up? Are they going to feed them
three times. I don't know what time chicks get up
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I don't even I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But eat them safe. You're to keep them warm. It's winter.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
This is what happens when you allow your kids hang
out with your friends. Your brands think it's funny to
tell your kids stuff they know that you don't want
to do.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
You don't want to do that. It's like a foster
home for chicks.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, so I feel like my weekend coming up is.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
Going to be for the weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Rage.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You want to come out on the boat and I'm sorry,
I can't. I've adopted chickens just for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And paid for it. Yes, what kind of fucking system
is that? Stupid?
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That is when you foster children like human children, you
get money from the government. I don't know, she's someone
that us you. I'm in your food surely, so this
I mean a brilliant business idea. I know, I don't
even mend you these animals for the weekend, and.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
You pay us, then hopefully you want to buy them
from us in the end and keep them and raise
chicken option. No, I don't want to. I don't want
any more chocks. We've been through this, h We've done
the chook thing.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
You remember that you gave chicken thinking, oh, that's a
lovely gift. They live out at Samford, they've got acreage.
I know what they would really.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Like a chicken. Chicken.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
We brought you a chicken.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Its name we named it was Rogue. It was the
most rogue chook I had ever encountered.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
It used to just come into your house.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It was always in my house, and then I'd pull
up in my car and then like if i'd open
my door, there it is, and then it just jumps
in my car in your car. And then the day
that I literally thought I had a snake in the
house because it's just me, either a snake or a ghost.
It is just me and the whole entire house. It's
(09:56):
in the middle of the day and all of a sudden,
the xylophone starts going a xylophone you guys, like, it's
a fucking chook jump through the window.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Through the window and starts playing there.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And it's like dancing on it. So it's little nails
are going ding ding ding ding ding, And I was like, what,
it's a musicals, a musical chicken yeah. And then to
top that off, you gave us a chook that we
thought wasn't even laying eggs. And that's the whole point
why you get chooks, right, you want fresh eggs. This
thing didn't ever lift its game, never, never, never ever
(10:35):
got one egg from it. Do you know why why
it's hiding them? When we finally gave it away, I
found all its eggs. It was probably the best layer
we'd ever had that we didn't know where it was
laying them.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
That was a smart chicken.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Like a pile of eggs, file.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Of eggs plays the xylophone.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I had its wings clipped because it kept jumping out
of the chook area. I had to hide to see
how it was getting out, because it's like when you
get their wings clip, they can't fly. Do you know
what did? It hopped from one level into another level,
to another level to another level to it reached the
top and then just jumped straight down.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Oh right, We could have made millions from this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
This was like a circus truck, a circus chok.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
You didn't allow him to be his full potential. He
was a musical, he was talented.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
And now I better spend my weekend fostering chicks.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
That chicken was smart. You're on the lookout for the
next one.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Maybe we had on chickens
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